ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,239, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Circuit arrangement, semiconductor module, electrical system, and method for optically outputting information with the aid of a MOSFET" was invented by Jonathan Winkler (Sonnenbuehl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement, a semiconductor module, an electrical system, and a method for optically outputting information using a MOSFET. The circuit arrangement includes a MOSFET with an optical interface and a gate control circuit. The optical interface is configured to guide light, generated by an inverse diode of the MOSFET, into surroun...